CONTACT:

thomaspuchung@gmail.com

EDUCATION:

Yale University - Master of Fine Arts
August 2011-May 2013, New Haven, CT
San Francisco Art Institute - Bachelor of Fine Arts
August 2007-December 2010, San Francisco, CA
Chelsea School of Art and Design - Semester Abroad
January 2009-may 2009, London, England
Alfred University - Bachelor of Fine Arts candidate
August 2006- May 2007 Alfred, NY
Brown University - Anthropology Intensive Program
May-August 2006, Providence, RI

AWARDS:

Yale University:University-wide Theron Rockwell Field Prize for “poetic, literary, or religious scholarship,” - 2013
Yale University Schoelkopf Travel Grant - 2013
The American Legion 2010 Scholarship Award.
San Francisco Art Institute Stone Scholarship - 2010
San Francisco Art Institute Osher Portfolio Achievement Scholarship - 2007-2008
San Francisco Art Institute Deans Scholarship - 2007-2008
Alfred University Art Portfolio Scholarship - 2006
Alfred University Miller Portfolio Scholarship - 2006

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

Country Time Kitsch The Blue Room Gallery
Brooklyn NY -November-Dec 2015
Drapetomania The Wylie & May Louise Jones Art Gallery
Bakersfield, CA- March-April 2015
Remember What Happened to Captain Cook Ong King Art Center
Honolulu, HI- June-August 2014
Cosmic Joke Stitch Styles
Honolulu, Hi- Permanent Exhibit created June 2014
For White Eyes Only The Projector Room Gallery
San Francisco, CA- December 2010

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

Collect Art IGCA, Anchorage Alaska- June 2016
All Alaska Biennial Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK- Feb 2016- July 2016
Dixieland Pettus Salon, Jacksonville NC- Dec 2015-Jan 2016
2015 Relate North Art Exhibition Kimura Gallery, Anchorage, AK- October-Dec 2015
Ninth Biennial Faculty Exhibition Kimura Gallery, Anchorage, AK- September-October 2014
Jellyfish Vials-The Evolution Store: Science and Art- June- August 2014
Hi-tides - Art at the Marks - Honolulu, HI - July-August 2013
Zoonami - Art at the Marks - Honolulu, HI - June-July 2013
This is not about you I did not choose to be here - Oliver Francis Gallery - Austin, Texas - April-May 2013
XS Collaboration - COOP Center for Creativity - New Haven, CT - April, 2013
Gifted and Talented - Third Streaming Gallery - New York, New York - May-August 2012
GOD SPEAKS - 1:1 Gallery - New York, New York - May 2012
For White Eyes Only - The Projector Room Gallery - San Francisco, CA - December 2010
Displacement - Diego Rivera Gallery - San Francisco, CA - November 2009
Year 2 - Chelsea School of Art and Design - London, England - March 2009
Camera 1, Camera 2 - The Luggage Store Gallery - San Francisco, CA - October 2007
Annual Castle Hill Ceramic Auction Show - Truro Center for the arts at Castle Hill - Truro, Ma - July 2007

REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS

The Renegade Rip- “Artist Visits BC to Discuss New Artwork”- March 2015
Artist visits BC to discuss new artwork, Art In America - January 2013
Roving Eye: The Gifted and Talented - Modern Painters - December 2012
Gifted and Talented: An Evening of Performance - The New Yorker - August 2012 Goings About Town/Galleries -Downtown “Gifted and Talented”
Q magazine - Spring 2012 Vol 2/ Issue 2 - Artist spotlight